Man dies in North Side police station

By Caroline Kyungae Smith | Tribune ReporterFebruary 19, 2011

A DeKalb man died in police custody this morning in a North Side police station, officials said.

Antonio Thomas, 31, of the 800 block in Kimberly Drive in DeKalb, was found unresponsive at 5400 N. Lincoln Avenue and was pronounced dead at 2:38 a.m. today at Swedish Covenant Hospital, according to the Cook County medical examiner's office.

The Foster District police station is located at that address, according to an online directory.

Thomas had been arrested late Friday and was being processed at the station when police found him unresponsive at 2:19 a.m., according to police News Affairs Officer John Mirabelli.

An autopsy performed today did not reach a conclusion as to the cause and manner of death, pending the results of toxicology tests, according to the Cook County medical examiner's office.